Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star

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1. Story
2. A single day of trials in the Irish Sea — turning circles, a stopping test from about 20 knots, and a short run at speed — after which Titanic was signed over to White Star and sailed overnight for Southampton, arriving in the small hours of 4 April.
3. Knowledge
4. RMS Titanic
5. White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company)
6. Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast
7. Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star
8. Connections
9. RMS Titanic
10. White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company)
11. Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast
12. Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast
13. Cherbourg — transatlantic roadstead
14. Queenstown (Cobh) — Roche's Point anchorage
15. New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
16. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
17. Titanic wreck site
18. Captain Edward John Smith
19. White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company)
20. Thomas Andrews
21. Marconi wireless telegraphy at sea
22. Titanic's lifeboat complement
23. Olympic-class liner
24. Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax
25. Southampton — White Star Dock (Berth 44)
26. RMS Carpathia
27. British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
28. United States Senate inquiry into the loss of the Titanic
29. Keel of yard number 401 laid at Harland and Wolff
30. Titanic launched at Belfast
31. Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star
32. Maiden voyage departs Southampton
33. Titanic anchors in Cherbourg roadstead
34. Titanic sails from Cherbourg for Queenstown
35. Titanic anchors off Roche's Point, Queenstown
36. Titanic sails for New York — last sight of land
37. Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
38. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
39. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
40. Iceberg sighted and struck
41. Andrews establishes the ship cannot float
42. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
43. First lifeboat lowered; first distress rocket fired
44. Last boat launched from the davits
45. Lights fail and the hull breaks in two
46. Titanic founders
47. Carpathia reaches the boats and begins the rescue
48. Cable ship Mackay-Bennett sails from Halifax to recover the dead
49. Wreck located by the Argo camera sled
50. RMS Titanic
51. J. Bruce Ismay
52. Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star
53. RMS Titanic
54. RMS Olympic
55. Keel of yard number 401 laid at Harland and Wolff
56. Titanic launched at Belfast
57. Sea trials in Belfast Lough and delivery to White Star
58. Evidence
59. Titanic was yard number 401: keel laid 31 March 1909, launched 31 May 1911, completed and handed over 2 April 1912; Olympic was hull 400 and Britannic hull 433.